The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-21
LABOR AND LABORERS.
OF Interest to Employers and Employed
Industrial Notes.

Industrial Notes.
Philadelphia Record.
British agrculturists are gaining in their abl
ity to compete with the outside competition OF
America aud Australia. and are giving agrcult
ural questions much closer attention than ever,
in consequence of the vicor and steadness of the
inroads that have been made upon their markets
in recent years. British farmers nave cut down
their expenses in every possible way. including
household expenses, and to-day the outlook in
consequence of these efforts is far favorable
than it has been for two or three years.
Prices in some British manufacturing centers
have taken an upward turn. Innings, worsted
coatings and cheviot cloths are being exported in
increasing quantities The British textile man.
ufacturers look for sharp improvement in de-
lnand during this year. and are quite confident
that prices will be better, The farmers have
been encouraged to cultivate flax.
The Fall River print cloth manufacturers
have sold 1000, 900 pieces for future delivery.
and the productive capacity is from 5000, 900 TO
10, 600 900 pieces per year. Stocks have not
been low for years Wages have been in
creased 10 per cent
One of the largest engineering undertakings
now in progress is the construction of the
Illinois steel briose at Cairo. The approaches
will be- a mile and a half in length and the
bridge proper n mile. making the entire bridge
four miles long and fifty-two feet above high
water mark The structure will be the finest
on the Ohio 1t will be finished within three
years Another extensive railroad bridge is to
be built at Fort Madison, Ia. 1t will be built
by June L. 1883. About twenty very heavy rail
road bridges are projected across the Western
rivers to be constructed during the next eighteen
months, and no doubt all of them will be built
if the present encouraging condition Of things
shall continue.
The sugar producers of the world are to hold
a worlds convention some time soon in elgum
to consider the best means of controlling that
rapidly increasing industry.
A Lebanon concern has received a contract for
twelve blowing engines for Alabama furnaces
A a
order for engines and boilers for the New Or
leans Custom house A Boston concern has just
received an order from Denmark for corrugated
brass tube radiators. A Dubuque concern will
shiphext week a carload of harrows to st. Pc
tersburg; their plows have already good sale in
that county. A Wheeling nail factory turned
ont week before last 5000 kegs of nails The
electric lighting companies are expanding their
capacity, and in some cases doubling it. Ice
making machines of extraordinary capacity are
being erected In the South. new structural
steel plant will likely be erected at Chicago.
Krupp, the German manufacturer. has taken an
order for so 900 tons Of steel rails from the Vic
torian government.
A Philadelphia firm has now under contract
seven large steel plants, both Besssmer and
open hearth. and has inquiries from good
many companies who contemplate investing
| large sums of money in iron and steel-making
| enterprises during the year An Alliance 70. J
| firm is completing shears Of so tons which will
| cut steel plate ten feet long aud one and one
| half inches thick.
A Philadelphia corporation has opened vein
| Of iron in North California three hundred
te 1t wide, which gives forty million tons of ore
! in sight 1t makes superb steel A railroad
is being built from South California through this
ore region to the Ohio river, by which this ore
| viii be delivered to furnaces that may want Ii.
| The Pen nsylvania Railroad Company has just
| built thirty-two sixty-ton engines. with -Four
| driving wheels, which can draw forty five loaded
| freight cars with much ease as the largest en-
| CINE now the surface draw thirty five
| cars. All the bridges are being strengthened to
stand the weight of these monsters.
| Two new glass factories are to be erected ia
| Florida
| The production of coke in 1856 was so pei
| cent. greater than in 1885, Some one suggests
| that hollow iron blocks be made for street paw
| ing.
| NEnglish and American railroad managers have
| always differed to the relative value of their
| locomotive engines. In all cases where faii
| COMPARISONS have been made the highest cost on
the American road for locomotive service is less
| than the lowest English cost. and the average
| American cost is less than half of the English
cost. IT English locomotives were run with the
| same economies in repairs and renewals as are
| the American. the managers of English roads
would save their stockholders S.. 100000.
The Cincinnati timers will demand an ad
| vance OF 20 per cent. in wages on May l. The
wages of coopers and laborers have been re
duced from SIP to $40 per week in tobacco ware
| houses.
Several new rou-making establishments ar.
| to be erected in both Northern and Southern
| cities, and large volume of money will be in
vested as soon as the season opens. The de
mands for piping far ahead of the facil
itses for supply that less than seven new
works talked of in various parts of thu
country.
In commercial circles the possibility of a de
cline in the value of raw materials in spite oil
tho present general improving tendency has beer
recognized just at present the manufacturer.
in ali directions have the advantage and are en-
| deavorng to aoa il. The new productive ca
pacity that will be added after April l. will over
take the demand. no matter what it may be. ant
| create a reaction IN time which will be more o
less severe as our expanding consumptive capaci
| ties determine.
The wages OF common labor have been ad
vanced throughout the country, South as we'll a